The Impact of Jury Race in Criminal Trials

NBER Working Paper No. 16366Issued in September 2010, Revised in December 2011

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We thank Peter Arcidiacono, Dan Black, Marcus Casey, Jane Cooley, Kerwin Charles, Jonah Gelbach, Larry Katz, John Kennan, Derek Neal, Jeremy Stein, Chris Taber, Christopher Winship and seminar participants at Carnegie Mellon, Chicago, Columbia, Duke, Rochester, Syracuse, Wisconsin and the NBER Summer Institute and five anonymous referees for many helpful comments and suggestions on earlier drafts of this paper. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.